RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County deputy district attorney who successfully prosecuted a repeat DUI offender for killing a 5-year-old girl will affix decorations Monday to a portrait of the child that will be carried in Pasadena's Rose Parade.
Chris Bouffard will put the finishing touches on a "floragraph" -- floral photograph -- depicting Sierra Lynn Heidrich, who died in December 2006.
The floragraph will adorn the 2012 Donate Life Rose Parade float christened "One More Day," highlighting the life-saving benefits of organ and tissue donation.
Sierra's family authorized her organs to be harvested after she was taken off of life support.
On Dec. 10, 2006, the 5-year-old was riding in her aunt's Nissan Sentra, strapped into a booster seat, when then-36-year-old Michelle Lynne Coplen, who was drunk, allowed her pickup to drift into opposing lane on Croydon Street in Lake Elsinore and slam into the Sentra.
Chris Bouffard will put the finishing touches on a "floragraph" -- floral photograph -- depicting Sierra Lynn Heidrich, who died in December 2006.
The floragraph will adorn the 2012 Donate Life Rose Parade float christened "One More Day," highlighting the life-saving benefits of organ and tissue donation.
Sierra's family authorized her organs to be harvested after she was taken off of life support.
On Dec. 10, 2006, the 5-year-old was riding in her aunt's Nissan Sentra, strapped into a booster seat, when then-36-year-old Michelle Lynne Coplen, who was drunk, allowed her pickup to drift into opposing lane on Croydon Street in Lake Elsinore and slam into the Sentra.
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